NCTech4Good

where tech meets social change

where tech meets social change

Turn Your Data into Insights and Your Insights into Stories

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Nonprofit organizations are run by passionate and dedicated individuals who often do not have the time or resources to dive into and analyze data that help them communicate to their constituents. Often these organizations have a wealth of data, but a lack of resources in which to analyze and communicate their insights gleaned with that data. This session will explore using available free tools to analyze and visualize data to share your stories.

Karen Patch
Karen Patch is a Sr. Technical Manager in Education Division at SAS. She has been with SAS for 18 years in roles ranging from presales engineering to developing and managing a technology enablement and development group. Karen has been focused on Education for the past 9 years, where she works with SAS education collaboration partners to help develop new technology solutions to achieve analytic insight for all ranges of SAS learners. In this role she has helped local non-profits find analytic insights to help tell their stories. Karen has a Masters of Science in Analytics from Capella University where she is now an adjunct faculty member in the Masters in Analytics program. She currently teaches Foundations in Analytics and Data Sources in Analytics. Karen received her BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Karen is a native North Carolinian who currently lives in Durham, NC with her two daughters and 3 rescue dogs.

Mapping Durham Civil Rights History with Drupal 8

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In 2015, Savas Labs engaged with Barbara Lau and the Pauli Murray Project at the Duke Human Rights Center to rebuild their faltering, and previously vibrant online map of historical locations and events associated with the legacy of Pauli Murray. The site had not been updated in a while, and due to automatic updates to the Google Maps API, had been rendered fairly unusable.

To reclaim the powerful community resource, Savas Labs decided to rebuild the map in a then beta version of Drupal 8 to leverage some of the advantages of the newer platform while incorporating a new design, transitioning to free and open source tools that removed the previous bounds of Google Maps integration, while learning at every turn.

Come to this session to learn more about local history, the Drupal platform, generally, Drupal 8 and designing in Drupal 8 more specifically, and modern web mapping tools.

Chris Russo
Savas Labs

Speaker Bio
Chris has been a professional web developer since 2007 and made his first website on geocities.com when he was 11. He was a big fan of and was deeply saddened when it was deprecated. For Savas Labs, Chris relishes in the success and growth of his clients and team, and writing in the third person. When Chris is not behind the computer, he’s often on a bicycle. He is the former board chair of nonprofit hospitality network WarmShowers.org, served on the board of his local bicycle advocacy organization Bike Durham for 3.5 years, founded a bicycle-powered food scraps recycling company called Tilthy Rich Compost, and rode his bicycle 6,000 miles across the U.S. in the summer of 2008.

NCTech4Good, an affiliate of NTEN and TechSoup’s NetSquared, is the local resource for nonprofit technology information. Join the sharing and networking at monthly meetings on the third Wednesday of the month, 6:30-8:30 p.m. usually at UNC-TV, and our annual conference, http://www.nct4g.org/. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter @nctech4good, and with the hashtag #nct4g.